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see "Iran 'unable to take Australians'" (BBC News, 6/21/07)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6228342.stm

You've all heard about the incident in March when Iran captured 15 British sailors and marines, and made the British look quite bad...somewhere between wimpy and incompetent.

Now, from this BBC News story, we learn that Iran tried a similar stunt on an Australian patrol boat prior to taking the British.

But when it came to the Australians, we learn why we should be so proud to have had the Aussies as allies in more wars than any other country:

The BBC has been told the Australians re-boarded the vessel they had just searched, aimed their machine guns at the approaching Iranians and warned them to back off, using what was said to be "highly colourful language".

The Iranians withdrew, and the Australians were reportedly lifted off the ship by one of their own helicopters.

Being married to an Australian, and having lived there for a year and visited many times, I can only imagine what that "colourful languange" might have been. I'm sure the Iranians had never heard anything like it, and if they're lucky they never will again because the Aussie's will aim to kick some Iranian a**, unlike the apparently compliant British.